The amount of insurance payments in 2021 for natural disasters

According to a reporter of Fars News Agency’s International Economics Group, quoted by Reuters, Munich Company announced last night that 2021, with many catastrophes and natural disasters, including big storms and frost in the United States, in terms of the amount of damages paid by insurance companies, is the second most expensive year. It is the time of recording its statistics.

Over the past year, insurance companies have paid a total of $ 120 billion in damages due to natural disasters, the second most costly year for international insurance companies, after 2017, which was a year of tornadoes and $ 146 billion in damage, the institute said. Was.

Swiss Ray, one of the largest insurance companies in the world, estimated the damage to natural disaster insurance companies at $ 105 billion in 2021, which is $ 15 billion more than the Munich-Rey Institute.

December alone saw major tornadoes and hurricanes in the United States, and glaciers and hurricanes in Texas last year caused significant damage in Texas, which was a significant loss for insurance companies.

A total of 10,000 people are said to have lost their lives in natural disasters in 2020, and if we take into account accidents that are not covered by insurance, natural disasters in 2021 will cause a total of $ 280 billion in damage.

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